3 ms·
On which architecture are cache lines not 64 bytes? It's almost universal.
by loeg 1y ago
On which architecture are cache lines not 64 bytes? It's almost universal.
- x-complexity 1y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45529810 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45529810 https://cpufun.substack.com/i/32474663/notable-differences https://cpufun.substack.com/i/32474663/notable-differences As noted by the other comments, Apple's M-series chips seem to use a 128-byte cache line. ARM doesn't mandate that their licensees must use a pre-specified cache line size: 64 bytes just happens to be the consensus-arrived standard.